Any Time - Poem by William Stanley Merwin

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How long ago the day iswhen at last I look at itwith the time it has takento be there still in itnow in the transparent lightwith the flight in the voicesthe beginning in the leaveseverything I rememberand before it before mepresent at the speed of lightin the distance that I amwho keep reaching out to itseeing all the time fasterwhere it has never stirred frombefore there is anythingthe darkness thinking the light